Tips To Becoming A Scratch Golfer 

Course management is paramount to shooting lower scores. If you can't mitigate your low percentage shots, you are doomed to post monster scores. Great content. New sub.

Can we see a 9 or 18 hole game that you play? It would be interesting to see how you play an actual lie in a real game

Very informative and learned a lot that I can take to the course and practice green.

Hands down my favourite video ive watched for becoming scratch.

That was very sound course management tips there brother. I am constantly trying to keep myself reeled into playing the boring golf approach instead of taking the hero shots and pin-seeking approach shots. It's not like I have not been beaten repeatedly by the old guys who play the kind of sensible (boring) course management golf that you are encouraging here. Well done.

Good advice, man. Love your work.

The best advice I've ever received on a golf course. There's no shame in laying up.

I’ve watched hundreds of golf tips videos to improve my game. Although I’ve heard those tips before somewhere. But this video is by far, my number one. No acting but straight to the point. Love it!

What really helped me drop down to a 13 handicap (from 26) was speed training. It was mainly just getting reps in hitting the ball but with speed training, I managed to gain almost 10mph club head speed. Being closer to the hole and having a shorter iron in to greens has helped immensely. I was swinging 97-98 mph occasionally getting one above 100. 230-240 carry, 250 total. My 7iron was my 150 club at the time. Now I’m averaging 107mph with a personal best at 112. Carrying consistently 260-270+ and I’ve rolled out to 300+ a few times. That 150 shot is a strong 9 or a 3/4 8iron now. Distance does make the game easier….. that also comes with finding a proper swing. Now I just need to learn how to read a green and putt properly. Single digit handicap in no time.

A lot of great golf wisdom I really like a lot.

New subscriber, great advice and love the content. Keep it coming br

Your first point is so important and something I really need to remind myself about more often as a high handicapper. I worry about MY game and do what works for ME, and I’m shooting high 80’s. If I try to base my game off of what I think other people are doing or I hit a club I know I’m only hitting because of the group I’m playing with and I’m in the mid-high 90’s or worse.

Nice tips man appreciate the work you put in to share all this with us 🤙 I had to start playing really boring, consistent golf to get scores below 70 consistently as well. I used to always have one one hole a round that was a double or triple from going for a foolish, low percentage shot. Play the par 5s for birdie and more often than not, you can start counting the par 5s as birdie holes 🤙

Love the shoulder shrugs 😂😂😂. Great video Mate!!!

Great advice!

they way you shallow your club is awesome, would pay big money to be able to do that lol. awesome video enjoyed it

Many of these tips will come with general adult maturity. You can tell this gentlemen’s age by the partners he plays with. Good players will never be bothered by peer pressure. Once you reach your late 30s and 40s, no one gives a shit about what club you use for any specific length, unless they’re asking for advice. Trying to be an Alpha in a group of 20 somethings means nothing if your playing partner sticks a 125yd par 3 with an 8 iron, and you overshoot the hole with a PW. In my 20s, if I was playing a 310yd Par 4 that was surrounded by sand on 3 sides, I went for it every time, and I failed 9 out of 10 times. He’s giving great advice here for less mature golfers. I wish I followed this advice in my 20s, but maybe you need to make these mistakes to improve. My mid 40s game is the best it’s ever been, and I golf half as much as I once did. Golf is a metaphor for live!!!

Good advice.

Clean vid

You're the American Golf Sidekick, great content!

Glad I found your channel!

Good advice. Following you now.😅

I appreciate the strategy tips. Any recommendations for better shot dispersion/better accuracy? Like how to practice/play to improve?

Played a whole weekend clubbed up at least two clubs from the rest of my buddies on most of the approaches and some of the tees. Didn’t matter to me because I’m not a long hitter but I know what club I need for the yardage.

Mickelson is a pro and learned it his way , but i think this is the best advice for your average golfer. Its common sense that less moving parts with less of a backswing will result in more consistency and accuracy.

Nice swing mate. Beautiful move to get shallow

Biggest thing for me on this is even when I feel like I’m hitting it perfect to not expect the perfect shot. Today for example, I struggled with my 3W in the fairway on an earlier hole by topping it. However, I was striking it off the tees to 240-250. so, on the 18th hole I had 290 left and thought I’d push a 3W to get a short chip on. Topped it. Should’ve hit a 4 or 5 and left myself with 80-100 yards for my money distance

Ironically I've been doing a lot of these tips lately and tonight I just broke 40 for the first time with a 39. Beginning of the year I was going out trying to break 50 on 9

Great video and content. If i want low spin on my ball flight and i have a fast swing speed, does x shift make sense?

It’s loft that matters not the number. That’s why Bryson hits his “9” that far, it’s because it’s really a 6 iron

I often play with men much older than me who out score me every round. I can hit further then them with every club in my bag yet they ALWYA play smart golf and end up w their ball in the cup before mine.

It’s a numbers game fellas

These are good tips but there is a GIGANTIC amount more that you need to shoot in the 60s(which I have)

What’s the name of those sunglasses you are rocking?

waddaplaya🙂

4:00 mins most scratch golfer thing ever. Minute explanation of why to punch out, takes the crazy shot anyway and executes flawlessly lol

I’m new to golf, sorry if this question is ignorant. But if he’s shooting 60s normally then what’s stopping him from playing with the big guys

I watched it and now I’m scratch

Unless you are playing for money, or you are playing a round and “competing” with who you are doing the round with, who gets in the hole first and each hole of all holes first , doesn’t matter. What matters is was each shot and each sequence of shots on a hole well managed and executed. Did you have a good round? Did you enjoy your golf round? Did you enjoy each hole?

Numbers on my clubs means nothing I have the yards written on it

We always play Scrambles. My brother always gives me shit for using my woods on a par 3.... Then I give him shit because we end up playing my ball every time. (I have 2 torn shoulders)

Great video. Can we talk about those sunglasses?

Brysons 9 iron is really an 8 iron still long for an 8 but some pros can do that For some reason he calls his 45* a 45* not a pitching wedge He says he’s not loft jacking because it would be to spinny, but his shafts are all the same length 🤔

Course management is of course very important, but just as important is distance off the tee and in the fairway. Something I just don't possess. So, while my course management is excellent, I still can't break 90.

If telling us to not hit through trees and chip out, then hit the tree and then say now chjp out, dont hit perfect shot, then tell us opposite, same on chip with LW, actually skinny one so we see not what to do, then show alternative way..

No one needs a 200 yd 7 iron.

Why kind of sunglasses?

Who hits PW 160 yds

Shot 60 and you are still a RU-vidr not in PGA tour?

Golf is already a difficult sport, there’s no need to make it even harder with terrible course management. Decision making is really the biggest thing preventing most golfers from reaching single digit handicaps.

Hi…. Like your style,presentation and attitude, but….. Just 2 and a half min. Into the video you contradicted your perspective because of a faulty fact…. No problem let’s discuss that… You said with game improvement irons you could hit the 7 iron 210 yds. ,yet you prefer from experience to play more traditional and probably more lofted specifications on you iron set…. Then you refer to Bryson hitting 9 iron from 190 yds. The fact you missed is all Bryson’s irons are one length = to his 6 iron … probably + 1” over new standard length… So compared to traditional spec irons he is playing a 43* 5 iron … spiny trajectory; that’s how you win a U.S. Open from the heavy rough with no one else can hold of me OK let’s continue with the video

No one cares what club it was, as long as it gets in the hole.

So no actual tips on swing, chipping, or putting techniques. Waste of time

1,000th like, and another follower earned. Best of luck with your continued success! I'll get my channel up like this someday soon! 🫡🤜🤛